Thursday, March 26th, 2009
A few things to chew on as the NCAA Tournament kicks back into gear tonight:
Eight of the top ten and 13 of the top 16 teams in Ken Pomeroy's final regular season rankings are still alive in the NCAA Tournament, which this year has been mostly devoid of upsets. All ...
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Thursday, March 19th, 2009
I don't have a lot of commentary right now since I'm on vacation (spring training is pretty cool, you know), but I have made my NCAA Tournament picks and computed the Log5 win probabilities based on KenPom's rankings.
See below. There are actually five brackets there (my ESPN entries), but #1 ...
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Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
This is the fourth installment of a four-part series on scouting the 2009 NCAA Tournament. Check out the intro, Part 1 (small conferences), Part 2 (mid-majors), and Part 3 (power conferences).
With just a few days left until Selection Sunday and many conference tournaments either underway or complete, I will attempt ...
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
This is the third installment of a four-part series on scouting the 2009 NCAA Tournament. Check out the intro, Part 1 (small conferences), and Part 2 (mid-majors).
Most of college basketball's best teams play in one of six "power" conferences, also known as the BCS conferences in football: the ACC, SEC, ...
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Friday, February 20th, 2009
This is the second installment of a four-part series on scouting the 2009 NCAA Tournament. See the intro here and the first installment here.
In the first installment in this series, I mentioned that a lot of basketball analysts throw around the term "mid-major" and use it to refer to different ...
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